Reindeer Game announcement during finale
During the season 25 live finale, host Julie Chen Moonves announced that Big Brother spin-off Reindeer Games would be premiering December 11.
The special event was to be six episodes long, and nine Big Brother “legends” would join the cast – including one from the most recent season.
The challenges would be hosted by Santa’s Elves, including Derek Xiao, Tiffany Mitchell, and Jordan Lloyd.
More on contestant Xavier in his previous season
In the grand finale watched by millions of viewers, Xavier Prather was crowned the winner of season 23 after beating runner-up Derek Frazier.
Host Julie Chen Moonves announced that Prather had been victorious after defeating Frazier in the jury vote.
Prather was declared the winner in just the fourth unanimous jury vote in the show’s history, following on from Tamar Braxton in BB2, Dan Gheesling in BB10 and Cody Calafiore in BB22.
Prather walks away with the grand prize of $750,000, which is an increase of $250,000 from previous seasons of the show.
The Wisconsin attorney becomes the first Black winner of Big Brother in the history of the show’s regular seasons.
Xavier’s perspective on Taylor’s treatment
Xavier is a current contestant on Reindeer Games with Taylor, but at the time of Taylor’s original season, he shared words of support for her circumstances.
The Cookout, which was composed of six Black members during 2021 season of the show, was the first alliance to get all of its members to the final six, making history in Big Brother.
Last year’s winner, Xavier Prather shared: “Members of the black community (especially black women) and other people of color stand no chance in the Big Brother House due to the perpetuation of micro-aggressions and unconscious biases which plague our society.”
“In the future, I hope it doesn’t take a ‘Cookout’ for black houseguests (or any POC houseguest) to finally escape the feeling of being ostracized within the Big Brother House for simply existing. Change is a must!” he said.
Fans have threatened to boycott in the past, part two
A second fan wrote: “All this media coverage and nothing will change. We need to actually tune out and boycott. Maybe if @CBS @CBSBigBrother sees the ratings dropping then they’ll actually do something.”
“The racist behavior on Big Brother continues. The only way to make CBS take action is for viewers to boycott the show. I refuse to watch or stream that mess,” chimed in a third.
A fifth said: “Because of all that I have been reading, I have decided to boycott @CBSBigBrother this summer. Unless it is addressed by production, I won’t be watching.”
Twitter has been flooded with hundreds of similar tweets just like the ones above.
A casting producer for the show, who chose to remain anonymous told Variety that the situation was “really disappointing” and that 50% of the casting team is made up of the BIPOC community.
Fans have threatened to boycott in the past
After fans felt Taylor was being treated unfairly on the show, they started a Twitter campaign to try to get every viewer to boycott watching the series.
One fan even put out a statement and tagged Big Brother and CBS to address the issues that are going on in the house.
They urged everyone to cancel their subscriptions to the live feeds and to spread the word.
Other fans on Twitter said they are boycotting the show as well until something is done.
“And why are you all still watching Big Brother??? Boycott that s**t so it just dies already. And Vote Taylor Americas Favorite Houseguest!!! Nobody else matters,” one fan posted to X.
More on host Jordan Lloyd, a fan favorite
Jordan was one of the 13 houseguests in season 11 of Big Brother.
Fans quickly grew to love her for her sweet personality, kindness, and her southern accent.
Viewers fell in love with her, even more, when she got into a showmance with her houseguest, Jeff Schroeder.
They were one of the first showmances to last outside the house and quickly became a favorite among fans.
The reality TV star was part of “The Populars” group, but quickly became the last one standing from that group.
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